Entrepreneurs, how stupid does Jason Calacanis think you are? Pretty stupid, apparently. We recently pointed out how he and partner Michael Arrington were going back on their word by charging startups $1,247.50 to demo at TechCrunch20. Now, Calacanis has been going around claiming that the DemoPit program "[b]asically this wipes out any profit we would have from selling those slots." Nonsense. It's hard to know where to start in debunking this notion, but let's do it by the numbers.

TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington has left the board of troubled start-up Foldera. Uncov states the situation eloquently: "This company has been fucked for awhile and the condom just broke." [uncov]

I haven't seen the actual demographics, but I'd be shocked if TechCrunch's readership, like every other tech site, is anything but crushingly male. Which makes Valleywag reader Mark Mercado's sighting of an ad for Fashion Bug, the discount women's retailer, on the tech-review site quite curious. Either Federated Media, TechCrunch's ad representative, is getting desperate and selling space to so-called "remnant" ad networks — the Ross Dress for Lesses of the online-advertising world — or Fashion Bug, in a savvy move, is marketing to cross-dressing entrepreneurs so desperate to get TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington's attention that they're willing to doll themselves up like Julia Allison, the New York tartlet who made a recent Bay Area tour.

Attention, blogtards: Michael Arrington has seceded from the blogosphere, a space in which his ego no longer apparently fits. In an otherwise tiresome review of yet another Web 2.0 product, Arrington made this fascinating observation:

When Jason Calacanis and Michael Arrington launched their startup conference, TechCrunch20, they promised to change the slimy business of launching new companies at high-priced shindigs. For the companies chosen to present their products, be no cost to pitch or attend, unlike other high-profile startup bashes. Now, though, he's figured out how to solve two problems at once: Bump up flagging ticket sales and charge startups for the privilege of showing their wares. It's so ingenious, so hypocritical, and so brazen, it could only be conceived by Michael Arrington. Here's the plan.

Sorry, ladies: Michael Arrington, the perpetually horny editor of TechCrunch, is no longer listed as single on Facebook. [Twitter]

FROM THE DESK OF MEGAN MCCARTHY — Patricia at StyleDiary posted what I can only pray is a mocking gallery of guys from last week's TechCrunch party. On full display, that most heinous Valley fashion staple — party guests in blue shirts. For the love of Jobs, can this trend die? I understand, the blue shirt is the easy choice for tech meet and greets — that's the point. You think it's safe, so you wear it again. And again. And again. You're trying to just seem like a regular tech guy, I know — but all it does is mark you out as yet another crowd-following Silicon Valley tool. Admit it: You put this shirt away in 2001, after the market crashed, and just dusted it off for this go-round, didn't you?

With Facebook friends like these, who needs enemies? Noah Kagan, who left his job at the social network abruptly in mid-2006, now has a Facebook group in his honor: "Boycott Facebook until Noah Kagan is re-hired!" Valley prankster and Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams created the group. We pinged Kagan, who's now working happily at online personal-finance startup Mint.com and blogging at Okdork.com. Kagan, when pinged on IM, was as bemused as we were to hear about the group, but had no idea why Abrams was starting it a year after his departure. The Facebook group, however, might not be telling the whole story about the Facebooker's departure: A well-placed tipster says Kagan was fired for leaking company secrets to TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington.

It appears that Michael Arrington is no longer devastated by the abrupt departure on Tuesday of Julia Allison, the New York-based TV commentator he'd begged to stay in town after she flew in for his TechCrunch9 party. The TechCrunch editor has found a new lust object: Morgan Webb, host of WebbAlert, yet another online tech-news show with a busty host in the vein of Rocketboom. After the jump, the hilarious homina-homina that the horny hetero slipped into his review.

Julia Allison, the New York-based TV commentator, Time Out New York dating columnist, and Star editor-at-large, has escaped from the desperate, horny clutches of TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington and "decamped for LA," according to a source close to the matter. Well, some blogger who got a text message from her, anyway. Her plane touched down at the runway in Los Angeles at 1:36 p.m., and we all breathed a sigh of nerdy relief. That much fabulousness in so short a time? It's enough to make a backup generator abort its start sequence, if you know what I mean and I think you do. (Photo by Sashaphotography.com)

Attention, Valley residents: Julia Allison, the Star editor-at-large, TV commentator, and notorious nobody from New York, is still in the area. Valleywag has learned — from Allison herself! — that she cancelled plans to fly back yesterday at the behest of imperious TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington, who ordered her to "fucking stay." As startup entrepreneurs already know and Allison is learning, one disobeys Arrington at one's peril. So strap down your menfolk and lock away your sysadmins, people: Allison and companion Meghan Asha are still on the prowl. They're from the Big Apple, they're way underdressed for the weather, and they're not going to leave until they land a beau who can whip up a jazzy CSS file and upgrade them to Movable Type 4.0.

New York-based journalist and Star editor-at-large Julia Allison was a surprise guest at Friday's TechCruch9 event. Valley folks will likely have never heard her name, but she's famous in some East Coast circles. So why did Allison fly out to California specifically for Michael Arrington's soiree?

No wonder TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington, formerly CEO at domain-name trader Pool.com, was so eager to get out of what he's called the "extremely dirty domain name business": Moniker.com is now putting 257 ultrafilthy domains up for sale at a live auction to be held August 4 in Hollywood, Fla. The list includes domains like Jiggly.com, Poledancing.com, and Lactationnation.com — and those are some of the more pleasant ones. We're curious how Floridarentalproperty.com made it onto such a raunchy roster. Is there something we should know about what people are doing with all those condos on the market?

Newsweek, from 3,000 miles away, bills TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington's parties as "harder to get into than Studio 54 in its heyday." So much for the periodical's vaunted factchecking: I waltzed right in. And the scene? Last Friday's TechCrunch9 was, at heart, the same meet-and-greet that takes place several times a week somewhere between San Francisco and San Jose. Except on steroids. A reported 900 people showed up on the Sand Hill Road patio of August Capital to schmooze, deal, and — oh, yes — sucking up to Arrington in the hopes of a mention on his site.

Seems that the execs at PodTech weren't so pleased with TechCrunch's story today, and called an all-hands meeting to state to employees that, as Robert Scoble reveals on Twitter, "TechCrunch got a lot of things wrong". TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington reacts swiftly, telling Scoble that any inaccuracies came from PodTech CEO John Furrier and then scolds the prolific blogger: "It's bullshit to call this out publicly. I assume the off-record conversation is now fair game for TechCrunch.". And all of this is in time for tonight's TechCrunch9 party at August Capital, which Scoble is expected to attend UPDATE: Arrington has responded on his TechCrunch blog, in a post delightfully titled "Dear PodTech, I'm Not Your VP Marketing."

"There have been a number of reports that silicon valley based Podtech is literally falling apart. I spoke to Podtech CEO John Furrier and asked him how many of the rumors are true. While he certainly fed me a certain amount of spin, the company has at least a few signs of life." — TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington gives the Valley's third-worst video company a less than stellar diagnosis

Prickly, volatile tech blogger Michael Arrington has disinvited our party correspondent, Megan McCarthy, from this Friday's TechCrunch gala. Anyone care to report from the scene and tell us what he's so desperate to hide from the Valley's eyes?

Cartoon Doll Emporium has an unreleased virtual dress-up doll of TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington. This makes us sad for so many reasons:

It's a modern-day Web 2.0 romance: TechCrunch hypes website, TechCrunch buys website. InviteShare, a site which put itself up for sale shortly after TechCrunch reviewed it, now shows that its domain name is registered in Michael Arrington's name. Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just buy it first, before the hype ran its price up, though? [Techomical]

"Steve Rubel is part of the Web 2.0 Iron Triangle: Rubel-Scoble-Arrington. Rubel is the weakest link in this chain, which means that he is not as good as the others at pretending like he knows what he's talking about." [uncov]